Current Status And Influencing Factors Of Health Related Behaviors Among School Of Public Health Students From A Comprehensive University In Jilin Province

Behavior and lifestyle is closely related to health.Health-promoted behaviors have beneficial effects on people's health,and health-risky behaviors are easy for individuals to suffer from illness.According to the World Health Organization report,health and life expectancy largely(60%)depends on individual behavior and its lifestyle habits.However,unhealthy behaviors and lifestyles has been the main cause of the development of chronic noncommunicable diseases.Unhealthy behaviors and lifestyles are not only popular in the resdients,but also among the college students.In this research,public health students from a comprehensive university in Jilin province were chosen to receive interviews on their health-related behaviors and influencing factors,and provide theoretical basis for the intervention policies.ObjectiveTo understand the prevalence of health-related behaviors among school of public health students from a university in Jilin province,and explore the risk factors of students' health related behaviors,and analysis the cluster status of unhealthy behaviors and lifestyles in students,then find possible causes and put forward corresponding counter measures.MethodsA self-administered questionnaire survey was conducted among the school of public health students,including grade one to grade five undergraduate students from a university in Jilin Province.The questionnaire included student's demographic characteristic,health related behaviors(diet,smoking,drinking,exercise,tooth brushing,sleep,cell phone dependence),mental health status(social support status,anxiety and boring tendency status).A total of 820 questionnaires were distributed and800 questionnaires were collected.36 questionnaires were removed and 764 validquestionnaires were obtained.The valid response rate was 93.2%.Results1.The research found that 90.7% students had unhealthy eating behaviors.The proportion of students having irregular meals,almost eating sweets snacks every day,without eating breakfast every day,without eating vegetables every day,without eating fruits every day were 28.7%,14.8%,39.5%,51.4%,42.5%.5.2% of students smoked;27.1% of students drinked;11.5% of students had not exercise in the past one week;23.6% of students brushed their teeth less than once a day;14.8% of students slept less than 6 hours per day;27.2% of students had a high degree of dependence on mobile phones.2.Multivariate logistic regression analysis showed that students who are male,whose mothers have a low level of education and who feel genernally and do not like their major were the risk factors of poor diet.Male,per-capita annual income in medium level and who do not like their major were the risk factors of smoking.Male,the medium and senior grades,average expenses per mouth in medium level,poor academic performance were the risk factors of drinking alcohol.Female,the medium and senior grades,high boredom tendency were the risk factors of lacking physical activity of students.Male,feeling generally for their own major,in the middle and lower level of academic performance were the risk factors of students with poor brushing behavior.Low grade,disliking their own professional,being single-child,serving as a student cadre and having lower social support were the risk of lacking sleep time;Female,having higher degree of anxiety,higher the tendency of boredom were the risk factors of mobile phone addiction.3.Unhealthy behaviors and lifestyles clustered among students.34.2% students had one kind of unhealthy hehavior and lifestyle,33.3% students had two kinds of unhealthy behaviors and lifestyles,and 18.3% students had three kinds of unhealthy behaviors and lifestyles.Multivariate logistic regression analysis showed that the influencing factors of students' having one kind of unhealthy behavior was whether they like their major,and the influencing factors of greater than or equal to two unhealthy behaviors and lifestyles clustering were sex and boring tendency.4.Students who smoke had higher report rates on irregular eating,without eating breakfast everyday,almost eating sweet snacks every day,brushing their tooth less than once a day,having less than 6 hours sleeping time,highly relying on mobilephone and drinking than those who do not smoke(P<0.05).Students who drink had higher reporting rate on their irregular eating,wihout eating breakfast everyday and brushing their teeth less than once a day than non-alcoholic students(P<0.05).Students who do not have physical exercise,had higher reporting rate on without eating vegetables everyday,without eating fruit everyday,and high dependence on mobile phone(P<0.05).Students who brush their teeth less than once a day,the occurrence of irregular meals,without eating breakfast everyday,without eating fruit everyday were higher(P<0.05).Students who were lacking sleep have higher reporting rate on irregular eating,almost eating sweets snacks every day,high dependence on mobile phone(P<0.05).Students who had high degree of depending on mobile phone,the rate of almost eating snacks every day was higher(P<0.05).5.Male were more likely to be gathered in smoking and drinking than female(P<0.05).Male students had aggregation behavior on mobile phone relying,drinking,no exercising and lack of sleeping,and the difference was statistically significant(P<0.05).Female students had aggregation behavior on smoking,having bad teeth brushing behavior,and lacking of sleep,female students who drinked and lacked of sleeping were clustered.Moreover,Female with poor brushing and not having physical exercise,lacking of sleep and high dependence on mobile phone behavior were clustered,the difference was statistically significant(P<0.05).Conclusion1.Unhealthy behaviors and lifestyles generally exist among students and require pay attention to it.2.Students' health-related behaviors are affected by psychology,physiology,family and school-related factors.Gender,whether they like their own professional,academic performance and boredom tendency are the key factors affecting students' health-related behavior.3.Unhealthy behaviors and lifestyles cluster among students.Gender,whether they like their own professional and boredom tendency are the influencing factors of unhealthy behavior lifestyles.4.Students who have an unhealthy behavior lifestyle may be accompanied by other health dangerous behaviors.Male and female students have different clustering model on unhealthy behaviors.5.We should establish a multi-sectoral cooperation mechanism to intervenehealth risk behavior among students,to cultivate developing healthy behavior lifestyle and promote physical and mental health in students.